Speedball Fabric Block Printing Ink, 2.5-Ounce, Black

Buena tinta para ropa.

So excited for this!! Going to try new crafts!

I heat treated and let my ink cure for a whole week and within 2-3 washes the ink was faded

This shipped quickly. Its visible on black and dark fabric which is great. However, it looks more yellow than metallic gold. Kinda disappointing, but this is the manufacturers fault not the seller so I wont take off points.

I have fabric printed with a lot of medium. I decided to use this for a recent project because I wanted something that would produce sharp lines without heat setting How we my blocks have wide stars and hands. I don’t think this worked well with woodblocks. It is very sticky. If you roll it on the stamp like you would use acrylic it looks faded. If you put enough on to get a dark print it leaves peaks/waves in the wider areas of the print. If the blocks were thin line I think this would have been okay. Also it sticks to everything so well you don’t realize it got on your hand until it is too late. It says it dries quickly but it was still really tacky after 72 hours. I emailed the speedball customer service but they kept telling me, it dries overnight and never responded to my reply on why it was sticky 72 hours later. Back to much cheaper options that create better results. Heat setting is just easier.

It did not cover real well . Left spots in my print when it was pressed onto my shirt . Disappointed

Always a good ink for block printing on fabric. A tube goes a long way.

I love this stuff! It dries well after about 5 hours, but with a full 24 hour cure, Ive seen this ink hold up well on printed items that get battered, beaten and tossed in the wash a hundred times. The color looks great after numerous washes and even my longest-used kitchen towels look great! Super pleased with this product, Speedball. Make more colors! And bigger tubes!

This ink is great and incredibly opaque. Since it’s pretty much the only opaque white option for linocut on fabric I’m not gonna give it too much of a hard time but I do wish it stayed wetter longer. It dries quite quickly and becomes difficult to use. I have had to get a toothbrush to clean it out of my Lino blocks because it gets caught in the tiny crevices and won’t come off without a good brushing. I might be too used to using water based inks so take that into consideration when reading my review. It works best with 100% cotton or linen with no stretch element but gets the job done on stretch fabric with only a little greying. I almost exclusively print on black with white ink so I use this product constantly and my biggest complaint is the smell. If you’re used to oil painting it smells similar to oil paint which isn’t terrible but definitely leave your windows open when printing.

Speedball Fabric ink has good tack, covers a rubber or linoleum block well, and still manages to put down a nice clear print on fabric (I am printing linen, shantung silk, and cotton). It is reasonably priced, too. I have experimented with a number of other inks in the water-wash up variety, printing by hand or with Speedballs small hand press and this ink performs very well, permeates the fabric just enough and yet - very important - dries quickly! The clean up is a breeze with just soap and water and there are no fumes at all. It maintains its viscosity in the tube, and is so much easier to use than something like a screen printing ink on fabric. I generally use aqua wash etching inks on fabric and though colors are richer, there is the painfully long two weeks of drying time. Speedball inks dry in 48 - 72 hours. You will not have to do anything after printing to set the color. Just wait a few days. Ive washed it. The color hangs on just fine on fabric. The cons are: The color seems to fade as it dries on the fabric after printing, so be prepared for a slight color shift. The ink will come out looking exactly like the color square on the tube, but will dry lighter. Also, there are very few colors available. I hope they expand their palette of tubed ink. The ink dries pretty quickly on the plate once rolled out. As a result, you end up using quite a bit of ink per print session. You can get around some of this issue by changing how you print: either rolling ink into a foam pad which will keep it wet, or simply working faster.